Mon Nov 2 · 6pm
Never Out of Options with Siamak Namazi
Siamak Namazi spent nearly two decades as a strategy consultant and executive across the Middle East before Iran held him for eight years in Evin Prison, making him the longest-held American hostage there; he was freed in a 2023 prisoner exchange. His keynote turns 2,898 days of captivity, in which he treated interrogations as “dystopian negotiations,” into five practical lessons on finding leverage and creating options under pressure.